Yaeji returns with a new single and music video for ‘Pondeggi.’ The title is an homage to Beondegi, a traditional intergenerational Korean street food made of silkworms, and schoolyard hand-clap game that serves as the foundation for the track’s beat. ‘Pondeggi’ is a striking evaluation of the toil within humanity, nature, and technology. Utilizing storytelling, humanity’s oldest technology and most radical form of expression, Yaeji uses innovation with the aim to invoke deeper examination. Directed by...
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Yaeji is back with a hot new club single ‘booboo’. After a brief period of retreat from the club, while she recorded and released her 2023 debut With A Hammer, Yaeji is back firmly behind the decks with this floor-filler. Last month ‘booboo’ debuted during Yaeji’s Boiler Room DJ set (watch here) at Brooklyn Mirage, followed by a live performance of the single during her performance at Pitchfork Music Festival....
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Following the release of her much anticipated and critically acclaimed debut album With A Hammer earlier this year, Yaeji returns with a brand new single and music video for ‘easy breezy’. ‘easy breezy’ sees Yaeji draw inspiration from a lot of the Japanese and Korean music she grew up listening to (and still does), which itself is heavily influenced by UKG, House and Brazilian music; Yaeji combines a Bossa nova style guitar sample with her unique beats and vocals...
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Today, Yaeji’s highly-anticipated debut album With A Hammer is available globally. The omnibus is a daring statement of emotional evolution. Singles ‘For Granted,’ ‘Done (Let’s Get It)’ and ‘Passed Me By’ are an introductory snapshot of the shapeshifting sonics on With A Hammer that follow Yaeji’s journey as she wades through the murkiness of sorrow and doubt and releases the frenzy of anger, with the help of a metaphorical hammer...
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Yaeji returns to share the second single and music video ‘Done (Let’s Get It)’ from her upcoming debut album With A Hammer, out April 7th On Yaeji’s latest single she reflects on the patterns, modes of thought and traumas we inherit from our ancestors, taking on the mission of smashing these inter-generational cycles as a path toward healing herself and the world. Accompanied by a music video directed and edited by Yaeji, ‘Done (Let’s Get It)’ stars Yaeji alongside her...
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NYC-via-Seoul artist Yaeji, whose introspective, genre-pushing tracks have made her a global icon occupying a space all her own, announces the details of her debut album With A Hammer, out April 7th. The album’s first single ‘For Granted’ arrives with a music video directed by and starring Yaeji. The bouncy electronica single slowly descends into a hardstyle fury, prompting Yaeji to take her hammer and smash all of the things around her, embracing the expression of anger as...
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NYC-based producer and artist Yaeji, in collaboration with OHHYUK, founder of the Seoul based indie band HYUKOH, has announced two new singles and music videos: ‘29′ and ‘Year to Year‘ (out now on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records). Starting as sketches exchanged between the two artists, the songs took full shape when they connected for studio sessions in Seoul earlier this year. Written, recorded and produced by Yaeji and OHHYUK, the singles premiered with two new music videos: ‘Year to Year’ directed by Seoul-based...
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In April of this year, Yaeji released a stunning mixtape called WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던, which was noted by Time Magazine, Stereogum, Billboard, Gorilla vs Bear, New Yorker, Pitchfork and more as one of the best albums of 2020. Yaeji has now officially released an exclusive bonus track, ‘When In Summer, I Forget About The Winter,’ originally featured on CD formats of WHAT WE DREW exclusively in Korea and Japan....
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Yaeji has announced that she’ll return to Boiler Room on Saturday August 29th at 9am AEST for a performance titled ‘Yaeji In Place.’ This will be her first time performing material from her full-length mixtape WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던 (released April 2 on XL Recordings / Remote Control). ‘Yaeji In Place’ will see Yaeji joined by collaborators from the mixtape and incorporating live performance and DJing, in a signature hybrid...
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Yaeji has announced a vinyl release for her new mixtape WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던. This latest project, released digitally on April 2 via XL Recordings / Remote Control, is the first full-length body of work from the NYC-via-Seoul based electronic producer, DJ, and vocalist. On July 17 the mixtape will become available on vinyl, marking Yaeji’s first release on the format to date. Starting today three different, limited-edition vinyl...
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NYC-via-Seoul electronic producer, DJ, and vocalist Yaeji has released her mixtape WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던. Step in to the dreamy new music video for the title track. Filmed in Korea with Dawnqmentary (and the DADAISM CLUB), the music video for ‘WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던’ stars Yaeji, her grandfather and the DADAISM CLUB as Yaeji reminisces on the memories of her childhood in Korea. ‘WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던’,...
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Yaeji joins the XL Recordings family! The NYC-via-Seoul electronic producer, DJ and vocalist has announced her new mixtape titled WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던 due 2 April. Check out the new animated video for lead single ‘WAKING UP DOWN‘ below. Inspired by classic anime opening sequences and based entirely on Yaeji’s own original character designs and illustrations, the music video for ‘Waking Up Down’ was created by Yaeji with direction and...
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